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The coddling of the American mind : how good intentions and bad ideas are setting up a generation for failure / Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt.

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Publisher's description: Something has been going wrong on many college campuses in the last few years. Speakers are shouted down. Students and professors say they are walking on eggshells and are afraid to speak honestly. Rates of anxiety, depression, and suicide are rising--on campus as well...

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Main Authors: Lukianoff, Greg (Author), Haidt, Jonathan (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Penguin Press, 2018.
Subjects:
Intellectual freedom > United States.
Education, Higher > Social aspects > United States.
Civil rights > United States.
Compromise (Ethics)
Social psychology > United States.
Young adults > United States > Psychology.
Coming of age > United States.
College students > Political activity > United States.
Polarization (Social sciences) > United States.
Child rearing > United States.
Parental overprotection > United States.
Parenting > United States.
Civil rights.
Intellectual freedom.
Polarization (Social sciences)
Social psychology.
United States.
Nonfiction.
Table of Contents:
  • The search for wisdom
  • The untruth of fragility : what doesn't kill you makes you weaker
  • The untruth of emotional reasoning : always trust your feelings
  • The untruth of us versus them : life is a battle between good people and evil people
  • Intimidation and violence
  • Witch hunts
  • The polarization cycle
  • Anxiety and depression
  • Paranoid parenting
  • The decline of play
  • The bureaucracy of safetyism
  • The quest for justice
  • Wiser kids
  • Wiser universities
  • Wiser societies
  • Appendix 1. How to do CBT
  • Appendix 2. The Chicago Statement on Principles of Free Expression.

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